Category: Relationships, risks and safety

The Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change will host the first of its online internal research workshops on Weds 29th April 2020. This will be an internal webinar for ICSC members and other UCLan research staff. However, we plan to broadcast public webinars on this theme soon as well, in order for UCLan experts to... Continue Reading →

We are pleased to announce that Rob Hopkins, bestselling author and co-founder of the ‘Transition Towns’ network, will deliver the keynote lecture of our public launch event, on 1st May 2019 in Preston. All are welcome at this public event, which will consist of a series of talks and discussions from mid-afternoon through early evening,... Continue Reading →

Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change. Seminar series. “Sex work, sensory urbanism and visual criminology: co-producing knowledge and policy”. A presentation by Dr Emily Cooper. ICSC & Lecturer in Human Geography / UCLan School of Forensic and Applied Sciences. This seminar will centre on what we can learn from transdisciplinary approaches to research about sex... Continue Reading →

UCLan's Connect Centre for International Research on Violence and Harm held its second conference on Wednesday 3rd October 2018, at Brockholes Conference Centre Preston. The conference focused upon domestic abuse and the notion that if domestic abuse is to be identified and managed at the earliest opportunity, a collaborative approach is needed. Professor Gene Feder... Continue Reading →

An exciting new publication from Rachel Robbins, ICSC member and UCLan Guild Senior Research Fellow, co-edited with Salford University's Suryia Nayak. Many people experience multiple forms of oppression from interlocking and overlapping relations of power and domination, around class, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and much more. The theory of ‘Intersectionality’, originating from Black... Continue Reading →

On the 14th June, the Institute hosted a training event that centred upon innovative research methods with children. The training was held at the Tickled Trout Hotel Preston and was led by Dr. Amanda Bingley (Lancaster University) and Dr. Virginia Morrow (University of Oxford). Amanda demonstrated the role of creative play as a means of... Continue Reading →